This probably is the greatest time ever to be working in the US military intelligence organizations supporting military operations. All the equipment works superbly, and the coordination of IMINT, SIGINT, HUMINT, etc., is practiced and polished. Our maps of Waziristan probably show every structure, with relevant data. The personnel is professional and experienced.

It’s the Ritz! It’s whiz-bang! It’s perfection!

Furthermore, NSA must by now have thoroughly mastered the entire electronic communication network of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Every telphone conversation and every e-mail of every radical Moslem organization in those two countries is being captured and evaluated.

Most of the young Pashtun jihadists trying to sneak across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan are doomed. They are being watched from above as soon as they walk out of their Pakistani mosque and climb into their truck to begin their ride toward the border.

Our ability to target top leaders is especially devastaing. In their administration of their forces and resources, relatively little is written down, so when any such leader is killed, much organizational policy and information perishes forever.

There are about 40 million Pashtuns, but a few thousand of our soldiers are controlling them.